There’s trouble on the homestead, folks: Future seasons of the Syfy cult gem Wynonna Earp are in jeopardy, not due to any creative issues or problems with the network. As I noted in this Vulture story, the show’s studio, IDW, is having major financial problems. But Earpers, organizing under the #FightForWynonna banner, have done quite a bit (including billboards in Times Square) to try to raise the profile of the show in hopes that cameras roll soon on Season 4.

I hope you will read my latest reported Vulture piece, which contains revelations about CBS, Eliza Dushku, deep-rooted patterns of toxicity and another HR investigation at a show with a history of turmoil.

Wrote about “Bandersnatch” for the New York Times, along with superbrains Aisha Harris and Margaret Lyons. Choose your own hot take!

I wrote about Claire Fraser of “Outlander” for Entertainment Weekly. I really enjoyed this chance to gab about why she’s not only important in her own right, she’s a precursor to the relatively recent wave of ambitious TV shows that unapologetically present stories about complex women.

Like another CW show (“Jane the Virgin”), I think “Crazy Ex-Girlfriend” has presented one of the most sophisticated, innovative, creative and entertaining televisual stories of the past decade. I am right about this. Anyway, for the New York Times, I spoke to co-creators Aline Brosh McKenna and Rachel Bloom about where the show’s been and where its going in its final season (no plot spoilers, I promise). We also touched on a few of the songwriting team’s favorite “CEG” tunes. I’ll miss the show when it’s gone, but before the West Covina chronicle wraps things up, I really hope Darryl and White Josh work it out.

I love “Doctor Who”! Even if you know nothing about the show, this in-depth feature story should get you up to speed. For the piece, I talked to new showrunner Chris Chibnall, new lead Jodie Whittaker, a writer, a director and knowledgeable fans of the show; we discussed what it’s all about, why it works, where it has been in its 55 years and where it’s going. This piece was truly a labor of love, and I hope you enjoy it. I’m also excited that, as part of the reporting for the “Doctor Who” story, I got to do this very enjoyable and enlightening interview with star Jodie Whittaker. Go 13!

Something fun: My favorite shows of 2018. Yay for good and great TV! (What didn’t make the list originally, because I hadn’t seen it by then, is “Big Mouth,” which I recently watched and love. Think of it as my Favorite TV Show of 2018 #41).

I wrote about Wynonna Earp for The New York Times, wooo-hooo! Seriously, even if you don’t watch the show, aren’t you intrigued by the fact that this Syfy series already has four conventions devoted just to it? And it’s been on for only three seasons? I think the rip-roaring show’s history, themes and fandom come together to create an interesting saga, one that I think has value to any interested observer of the evolving TV landscape. Also there are tentacles and mustaches, what else do you want?

After a year of reporting on Brad Kern, a showrunner cited by dozens of ex-employees for harassment, vindictiveness, inappropriate behavior, repeated mistreatment of a nursing mom and racist comments (among many other allegations), he was finally fired by CBS. As I said in this Twitter thread, “It SHOULD NOT take multiple major stories in the press to remove a toxic exec, showrunner or anyone else with power in TV. That’s not the system working: That’s a sign the system has failed its workers.”

The culture of CBS, and entertainment-industry cultures in general, need massive, revolutionary overhauls. Abuses of power for the most part are still ignored, enabled and whitewashed. This is a reported Vulture story, with some analysis of those issues, on Brad Kern, Leslie Moonves, CBS and the changes the past year have not brought about.

Speaking of change, I really enjoyed this event! It was the Chicago International Film Festival screening and panel discussion of the documentary “This Changes Everything,” an examination of decades of sexism and the systematic exclusion of women in Hollywood. Fun stuff, right? But honestly, this film (which features Taraji P. Henson, Meryl Streep, Shonda Rhimes, Jessica Chastain and so many other amazing women) is brisk, lively and interesting, and I’m not just saying that because I’m in it (toward the end, they interview me about my reporting on this topic). “This Changes Everything” premiered at TIFF and is on the festival circuit now, but will be more widely available later in 2019. I can’t wait for more people to see it.

I guested on the Tom and Lorenzopodcast, check it out here, here and here. I love Tom and Lorenzo so much and we had a blast talking pop culture, film, TV and Me Too. Tom’s baked goods were amazing.

More podcastery! I guested on the Extra Hot Greatpodcast, where we talked about The Fourth Estate and other shows we’re interested in. I nominated an episode of “One Day at a Time” for the TV canon and I definitely did not tear up during that segment. Addendum: “One Day at a Time” is fabulous. Addendum 2: In a 2016 appearance on Extra Hot Great, I participated in a Star Trek TV fantasy draft and nominated a great episode of “Star Trek: Deep Space Nine” for the TV canon. This is when I peaked, folks.

I was honored to be on a panel at CUNY’s School of Journalism with New York Times critic A.O. Scott, the AP’s Nekesa Moody, and writer/journalist/podcaster Kurt Andersen; CUNY Professor Janice C. Simpson moderated. The panel, which is available as a Studio 360 podcast here, was titled, “When Bad People Create Good Art,” and focused on #MeToo reporting and the effect of the post-Weinstein revelations on consumers and critics of culture.

During the last 16 years or so, I was a TV critic at Variety, at HuffPost, and at the Chicago Tribune. Everything I wrote at Variety, from fall 2015 to spring 2018, is collected here. Here is a selection of pieces from the last few years that I would love for you to read:

Thoughts on grief, loss, Einstein and “The Leftovers.” You don’t need to have seen the show to read it. Of everything I’ve ever written, I’m most proud of this. A kind person asked me it if was painful to write. It was a cathartic joy to write. It was very hard to live.

I’d very much like for you to check out two pieces from 2016, when a large number of LGBTQ women were killed off various TV shows, and queer TV fans and their allies registered their problems with that pattern (which was yet more evidence of TV’s tendency to resort to the Bury Your Gays cliche with astonishing frequency, especially where gay women are concerned). I wrote this piece about why the enormous wave of anger and protest over the handling of the death of Lexa on “The 100” was justified. One month later, I wrote about who gets killed off on TV and how certain kinds of protagonists get to wear a “cloak of invincibility.” I owe the incredible ninjas at Autostraddle a huge debt; their research on this topic is enormously educational (read this, this and definitely this). And let’s not forget the fine work of LGBT Fans Deserve Better.

More on the ongoing Reckoning – and of course, this coverage should not be restricted to high-profile industries. This kind of reporting should be delve into the biases and abuses faced by every kind of worker. That said, I write about the entertainment industry, and in Hollywood, stories like this one are far too common. This story was also heartbreaking to report on. I remain awed at the sources who were brave enough to talk to me for those pieces. And I’m more convinced than ever that real, major, meaningful reforms must be made. Now.

Before I joined Variety, I was the TV critic for Huffington Post. Quite a bit of that work is here. You can also find the HP pieces here, and there are archives going back to 2011 on the right side of that page.

Until the fall of 2010, I was the TV critic for the Chicago Tribune. All that work is collected here, and the archives are organized by show title and by month. Not every program I ever covered is in the show title list, by the way. Although “Wonder Showzen” is, because why not.

I’ve covered and reviewed so many shows over the years; I’m a lucky human. If you Google “Maureen Ryan” and just about any TV show name, you’ll probably come up with something I wrote somewhere (I’ve even freelanced now and then, and I always forget about that stuff!). What I’m trying to say is, the following roster is horribly, horribly incomplete, because hundreds of shows I’ve loved (or loathed! Or loved and loathed!) are not on it. But here are a few notable stops on my journey down the TV coverage trail:

All my “Lost” coverage is here (arranged in reverse chronology; you have to go back [SORRY] to find the first of my “Lost” pieces). I wrote about individual episodes later in the show’s run, and I did a number of interviews with Damon Lindelof and Carlton Cuse over the years, and during the “Lost” era, I also spoke to the show’s DPs, its composer and a few of the actors. The episodic “Lost” podcast I was part of during that time, “Orientation: Ryan Station,” can be found on various posts. Island Forever.

Speaking of podcasts, “Talking TV with Ryan and Ryan” is over – if you ever listened, thank you. And you can still listen, if it’s new to you. It usually consisted of Ryan McGee and I blathering about whatever shows we were into (or not into) at that moment in time. Sometimes the podcasts contain interviews with actors and TV writers. (You can search the podcast’s site for show names.) This podcast (which is also on iTunes) may just be in your wheelhouse.

The drama that might be closest to my heart – and the show I’ve almost certainly written about more than any other – is “Battlestar Galactica.” All my coverage starts here (again, it’s in reverse chronology, so post-finale coverage comes first, then finale coverage, etc.). For “BSG’s” final run of episodes, I interviewed the writer of each episode and also offered my own thoughts; those posts are long but I so enjoyed doing them. Perhaps the most extensive post in that array of final-season coverage is an in-depth, post-finale interview with executive producer Ron Moore; that piece also contains my thoughts on the finale as well as comments from actors Edward James Olmos and Mary McDonnell. In late 2013, I interviewed Moore again, on the 10th anniversary of “BSG’s” debut, and you can find that conversation in both story and podcast form. Again, all of the “BSG” intel can be found around here (hit “back” to find earlier installments). I still miss Adama and Roslin and Saul damn Tigh. So say we all.

Oakley Foster has done a great thing and collected episodic reviews and features on “Mad Men” from a number of critics, including me. It’s truly a useful roundup to have and I’m grateful for it. Season 7 link roundups are here, and links to previous season-by-season link collections are here. Thanks, Oakley. [Oakley let me know he’s also done a similar roundup of episodic and seasonal coverage of “Breaking Bad” by various critics. I can’t overstate how handy this is and how grateful I am for these resources!]

I wish I had one link for all my “Breaking Bad” coverage, but you’re probably best off going to my HPTV page or the Tribune site and searching by an episode’s time frame or just looking for the “Breaking Bad” label and poking around. But here are a few links to some pieces I wroteduring the show’s home stretch. I’m still not over “Ozymandias.”

In addition to the ones names above, of course there are dozens of shows I want you to watch and catch up on and love. I don’t have time to list them all, but here are a few worth mentioning: I wrote quite a bit about Spartacus over the years – interviews and reviews and a “what to watch before you binge it on Netflix” explainer. If you think you’re too good for “Spartacus” and that “Spartacus” is something you should sneer at, think again. A more recent Starz offering that’s twisty fun: “Counterpart.” “The Good Fight” (especially Season 2) is swell and this year, I also really loved Amazon’s “A Very English Scandal.”